Effect of fiber profile parameters on the transmission properties of the tapered optical fibers

Author

Musa, B. ; Rozi, A.A. ; Noor, A.S.M. ; Ismail, A. ; Mahdi, M.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. MARA Terengganu, Dungun, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We fabricated a tapered optical fiber using a Vytran fiber tapering workstation which utilizes a filament as the heat source. The tapered fibers were fabricated with varying dimensions in order to study their effects on the transmission properties. The tapers were characterized by monitoring their transmission during and after tapering process. These transmissions were normalized to the transmission spectra of the untapered fiber. Taper angle was found to influence the transmission with larger angle contribute to a higher losses. Power loss of the best taper parameter is about 40 percent which resulted by small taper angle of 5.7mrad. Overall length of the taper also affects the transmission with shorter taper having a longer free spectral range (distance between two successive peaks in the transmission spectrum).

Keywords

optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre testing; Vytran fiber tapering workstation; fiber profile parameters; heat source; power loss; taper angle; tapered optical fiber fabrication; transmission spectra; Monitoring; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Optical imaging; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2011 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kata Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-265-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-263-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2011.6106862

Filename

6106862